50% of Wefunder's team of 22 are women. So we're passionate about helping more female founders, particularly inspiring very early-stage ones that this path is possible.
We're open to any ideas on how we can make this better!
Typically, the investors are the startups own customers. For our most successful $1m raises, we estimate over 70% of the funds are their own community.
This makes sense. One good signal of whether you should invest is whether you love the product.
A Republic works nicely. Many issues are too detailed and complex for referendums. That's why we elect people whose only job is to study those details. Otherwise, we make policy decisions based on who has the best propaganda that incites fear or hatred.
Agreed. That's exactly our plan at Wefunder. We're using Regulation Crowdfunding and Regulation A+ to create a new secondary market for riskier ventures.
With a few minor Congressional fixes to current laws (including one being voted on soon), we expect this to be workable in 2017.
That would be a cool idea. But I'm not sure the numbers of founder-CEO companies are large enough to make any conclusive determination. If you are limiting it to tech, I'd think the outliers of Apple, Amazon, and Google would destroy the competition.